John Hickenlooper is the mayor Of Denver, Colorado and the Democratic candidate for governor of Colorado. His campaign contacted me a while back to acquire rights to photograph I had taken of him at the last Democratic National Convention. I was pleased to see that they are using my photo for both his main Bio page and for his Facebook photo.

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John Hickenlooper’s campaign contacted me to acquire rights to a photo I took last year at the DNC.

‘goes to show you never know when or where a photo might be used.

For the past four days I have been waking up at 6am, trekking down the mountain from where I am staying in Evergreen and heading into Denver to cover the DNC. Mornings were a fuzzy blur of credential lines, endless walking and quick food. As bad as that sounds the access and visuals of the DNC were very exciting.

I have thousands of frames to sort through but there were a few favorites so far…

At Invesco Field on the last night of the Democratic National Convention.

My first view inside the Pepsi Center Monday morning.

Michelle Obama and her daughter Malia at a stage rehearsal in the Pepsi Center in preparation for her speech later tonight. Denver, CO 08/25/08.

Dennis Kucinich on the jumbotron at the DNC.

Colorado Senator Ken Salazar on the floor of the convention.

Hope.

I took Wednesday night off fromt he convention to attend a press conference and rally for Ralph Nader..

DNC Chairman Howard Dean made a unanounced appearence at a small conference I was covering.

At Invesco Field on the last night of the DNC. Denver, CO.

At Invesco Field.

At Invesco Field.

At Invesco Field on the last night of the Democratic National Convention.

Invesco Feild is the home to the Denver Broncos, named after one of the largest investment companies in the world and, come next Thursday, will be host to some 70,000 Obama fans supporters as he accepts his parties’ nomination for President of the United States.

This morning I attended a media event at the stadium that, with welcome speeches from Colorado Sentor Ken Salazar, Colorado Governor John  Ritter and Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper opened Invesco Field to the media to shoot B-roll and have a look around before the Secret Service closes it down till Thursday.

The event was announced by email at 8:00 this morning and was decidely small and low key.

Invesco Field in Denver was opened to the media today in anticipation of Barack Obama accepting the Democratic Party's nomination for President of the United States here this Thursday.

Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper speaks at Invesco Field where Barack Obama will acceppt the Democratic Party's nomination for President this Thursday.